Anthropology

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Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom.

Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Women's Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615-1760

By W. Vernon Kinietz
Subjects: Anthropology, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American Studies, American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The stories of the Huron, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Chippewa tribes in the years before contact with European settlers

Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera

By Ann Arnett Ferguson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Law, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities

The Resonance of Unseen Things

Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

By Susan Lepselter
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Studies

An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans

Simming

Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning

By Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Travel, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance

Cultural Struggles

Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

By Dwight Conquergood
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies

Gathers the essential essays of Dwight Conquergood, performance studies scholar, ethnographer, and activist

Olof the Eskimo Lady

A Biography of an Icelandic Dwarf in America

By Inga Dora Bjornsdottir
Translated by Maria Helga Gudmundsdottir
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Biography, American Studies

The story of an Icelandic dwarf who made a living in 19th-century America posing as an Eskimo

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

Stories as Equipment for Living

Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff

Edited by Marc Kaminsky, Deena Metzger, and Mark Weiss
Introduction by Thomas R. Cole
By Barbara Myerhoff
Foreword by Jack Kugelmass
Subjects: Anthropology, American Studies, Health & Medicine, Sociology, Jewish Studies

Takes us deeper into Barbara Myerhoff's examination of the place of narrative in human life, providing a treasury of reflection, experience, and wisdom as colorful as any collection of tales

The Future of Class in History

What's Left of the Social?

By Geoff Eley & Keith Nield
Subjects: History, Historical Methods and Theory, American Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Political History, Class Studies

In the struggle between "social" and "cultural" thinking, the refusal to choose sides can be a radical and vital move

Rites of Conquest

The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans

By Charles E. Cleland
Subjects: Anthropology, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American Studies, History, American Studies
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